going to reduce some of the neckbeard aspects to the game? It seems as though they make the game for streamers aka people who have 10+ hrs/day to play.

Atlas is becoming more and more time waste to reach the actual fun endgame content. Should have kept it with shaper atlas, none of this other horse shit with watchstones.

This post was edited by Dmitriy on Jun 5 2021 01:58pm

Its called GRINDING gear game. So no. Their vision for their games is to follow the true arpg grind 20 hours a day end game content to get an upgrade every other year.

joking, but not far off from what their vision is

poe is not meant to be a casual game and they do not want to cater to casuals, its built for hardcore-hardcore gamers and always has been from day 1 their mission.

the bloat is a real issue IMO, and they seem to agree for the most part but also don't really know how to stop it or control it - short of not bothering to update their game like every other arpg.

plenty of casual arpgs out there for the casual gamer

PoE 2 is a second campaign before the actual mapping. End game probably changes every 3 months but it's not going to get less grindy.
I don't see why you can't play at your own pace though.